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Page 45 of 771910 · PDF PAGE 53
The Innocence and Reputation of Man. 45 III THE AMBASSADORS White ships come over the sea from the Sultan of Ind ;1 it is their mission to enquire about the reputation of thy podex, O Habib ! Caravans of camels, laden with presents, come from Damascus and Samarkand, Bukhara and Baghdad ; for rich men and men of war,2 princes and amirs, wise men and even holy mullahs, hav- ing heard of the black-violet3 mole upon thy but- tocks, cannot endure the sweet pain, and lay all their homage below those twin crescents, thy curv- ing feet, like the tusks …
1901 · PDF PAGE 48
… Behold the burden of my life, and fear, And know me Isis. Worship me, and praise The goodliest ruler of the world, the queen Of all the white immeasurable seas, And that vast river of our sowing-time, And of your Sun. Behold me made a god Of my own godhead, and adore the sun Of my queen’s face, and worship ye the fount And fertile river of my life. Bow down, Ye people and ye priests, and worship me, And him co-equal. Iam very god!” So spake the Queen; but I arose and said: ‘‘Queen and our lord, we worship! Let the smoke Of this divinest incens…
1904 · PDF PAGE 75
…ven’s stretcher skids; but, generously giving up his briar, Bow (who sits next him) with unwonted fire holds it in place with his divine white ivories; how stroke increased to 50, which is high—very! Six (who’s a villain) sees upon a E 63
1905 · PDF PAGE 28
…wise to grieve, too happy to rejoice. So came the dawn on Ida to disclose Within her confines a delicious rose Lying asleep, a-dreaming, white of brow, Stainless and splendid. Yea, and fair enow To tempt the lips of Death to kiss her eyes And bid her waken in the sad surprise Of seeing round her the iron gates of hell In gloomy strength: so sweet, so terrible, So fair, her image in the brook might make A passionless old god his hunger slake By plunging in the waters, though he knew Ilis drowning body drowned her image too. ¥et she seemed gentle…
1910 · PDF PAGE 93
…ow that we in Him are dead, And that the Far is buried in the Near. Thus like a cherry-blossom is our life Floating unwetted on the moon-white mere.5 It is no time to sing ; for from the house Comes forth the bride Habib, sans prince or peer ; Unique Habib, who walketh like a cat, Sitteth, a swan, and runneth like a deer. His face is like the moon that shines upon The labouring Hajj,6 its camel-throned Emir.7 For like a column of innumerous men Doth serpentine his body ; he is here With hugs to break this breath, and with his mouth To stop the …
1912 · PDF PAGE 69
…ie-Dieu.] No news ! No word of Mortadellos fate ! No hope. To bruise the head of the old snake, the State. No scope To loose on him the white fangs of my hate. I grope A night so dark, so trembling, so obscure, so fierce No light comes filtered from the dawn, so pure to pierce This web of woe. Ah ! God, I ache for turn of tide At ebb. Then let the moonrise kindle and burn beside The sunset. God ! if I have loved thee in truth, adored As none before me, given all my youth, dear Lord, To Thee, now hear me, hear me, hear me this one breath ! Give…
1907 · PDF PAGE 242
…to subscribers, ros, 6d.; published price, 21s, od. Issued in green camel-hair, turned-in wrapper lettered on front cover, ‘‘ Alice,’ in white. [THE GOD-EATER: 1903] The God-Eater | A Tragedy of Satire | by | Aleister Crowley | Watts & Co. |17 John- son’s Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C. | 1903. Collation :—Cr. 4to, pp. 32, consisting of Half- Title, on reverse announcement of works ‘‘by the same author’; Title-page as above; Dedication; Text, pp. 7-32. Im- print ‘‘R, Clay and Sons, Ltd., Bread St. Hill, E.C., and Bungay, Suffolk,”’ at foot of…
1909 · PDF PAGE 45
…ecans (Cadent). Stammonia. Myrtle . | A restless man in scarlet robes, with golden bracelets | 15 Codamoms . Costum . A cmatthy man with white lashes, his body elephantine, | 16 Cinnamon . Mastick . A “nan ine ee ae aed with bow ole cad 17 Succum . Camphor A owift-footed person, with a viper in his hand, lead- | 18 Lyn Balsami . Olibanum Agee hairy man, with a drawn sword and shield | 19 Srorus . Santal Flav. An old man leaning on a staff and wrapped inamantle | 20 Bofor [?] Galbanum . A man riding on an ass, preceded by a wolf . 22 As for Asc.…
1910 · PDF PAGE 60
…: my hands are flung In prayer to Heaven nay, to mine own crown, To raise myself, and not to drag it down ! O holiest Lord of the divine white flame Of brilliance sworded in the temple sky ! O thou who knowest my most secret name, Who whisperest when only thou and I Make up our universe : bestow thy kiss : Arise ! Come, let us pierce the old abyss !
1911 · PDF PAGE 138
…l of flies.” Rolles bit his lip; his face was drawn with pain. At that moment he looked an old man. “Black flies," she went on. " Horrible white maggots. And now there are corpses. The maggots play about their mouths and eyes. There are three corpses that were God when they were alive. I killed Him. That was 130
1911 · PDF PAGE 138
…l of flies.” Rolles bit his lip; his face was drawn with pain. At that moment he looked an old man. “Black flies," she went on. " Horrible white maggots. And now there are corpses. The maggots play about their mouths and eyes. There are three corpses that were God when they were alive. I killed Him. That was 130
1912 · PDF PAGE 56
…her car by doves and sparrows drawn, Not the ethereal star that floats above the dawn, Not the seraphic swan that tempted Leda glowed So white a wonder on the lake. THE USHERS. A road ! A road ! Way for the high Princess, the bride who brings ! Make way ! MONICA. All health and happiness to all men here to-day ! With homage to the Doge my word is well begun. Next to the most high prince invulnerable, his son. Last, to the lords who by their attitude applaud This day of burial to faction, feud, and fraud. God and his blessed Son and Holy Ghost a…
1910 · PDF PAGE 57
…ing ecstasies. No ! for the envy of the infinite Crushes the juice from out the poppys stem, And brown-stained fingers wring the petals white, And weary lips seek lotus-life in them
1910 · PDF PAGE 85
…of the eagle follow The crested surf, and strike the shore, and flee Far from green cover, nymph-enchanted lea, Fountain, and plume them white as the sea-swallow, And turn and quiver in the ocean, seeming The glances of a maiden kissed, or dreaming. Light, as I swim through rollers green and gleaming, Sheds its most subtle sense to penetrate This heart I thought impervious to Fate. Now the sweet light, the full delight, is beaming Through me and burns me : all my flesh is teeming With the live kisses of the sea, my mate, My mistress, till the f…
1911 · PDF PAGE 166
…scream of orgasm. Every man that hath seen me forgetteth me never, and I appear oftentimes in the coals of the fire, and upon the smooth white skin of woman, and in the constancy of the waterfall, and in the emptiness of deserts and marshes, and upon great cliffs that look seaward; and in many strange places, where men seek me not. And many thousand times he beholdeth me not. And at the lastI smite myself into him as a vision smiteth into a stone, and whom I call must follow. Now I perceive myself standing in a Druid circle, in an immense open …
1911 · PDF PAGE 93
… begetting there was Christian blood on Sidi Omar’s hands. FATMA. He is as fair as a Christian. LAYLAH. The men of Sidi Omar‘s tribe are white men, thou wizened old black witch. FATMA. Ah! Sidi Omar! Sidi Omar! Sidi Omar! Happy the prince whose wife is as faithful as thou. Thou canst not open thy mouth without uttering his name. LAYLAH. Do not take it in thine, mother of lies! FATMA. My mouth has been shut these twenty years. LAYLAH. What? Any time these twenty years thou hast 85
1911 · PDF PAGE 93
… begetting there was Christian blood on Sidi Omar’s hands. FATMA. He is as fair as a Christian. LAYLAH. The men of Sidi Omar‘s tribe are white men, thou wizened old black witch. FATMA. Ah! Sidi Omar! Sidi Omar! Sidi Omar! Happy the prince whose wife is as faithful as thou. Thou canst not open thy mouth without uttering his name. LAYLAH. Do not take it in thine, mother of lies! FATMA. My mouth has been shut these twenty years. LAYLAH. What? Any time these twenty years thou hast 85
1913 · PDF PAGE 136
sublimity of his conceptions. The range of his subjectsis almost infinite, and the majority of his poems are literally ablaze with the white heat of ecstasy, the passionate desire of the overman to- wards his ultimate consummation—re-union with God.”—Occuli Review. The High History of Good Sir Palamedes, the Saracen Knight, and of his fol- lowing of the Questing Beast. 55. net. An account of the Mystic Quest. “¢. , . Noble and beautiful poem.”—Occult Re- VIEW. *‘Ttis impossible to read ... without being impressed by the essential truth and beau…
1913 · PDF PAGE 480
… plastic medium. The alliance of the soul and the body is a marriage of light and shadow. Light is the instrument of the Word, it is the white writing of God upon the great book of night. Light is the source of thought, and it is in it that one must seek for the origin of all religious dogma. But there is only one true dogma, as there is only one pure light; shadow alone is infinitely varied. Light, shadow, and their harmony, which is the vision of beings, form the principle analogous to the great dogmas of Trinity, of Incarnation, and of Redem…
1913 · PDF PAGE 480
… plastic medium. The alliance of the soul and the body is a marriage of light and shadow. Light is the instrument of the Word, it is the white writing of God upon the great book of night. Light is the source of thought, and it is in it that one must seek for the origin of all religious dogma. But there is only one true dogma, as there is only one pure light; shadow alone is infinitely varied. Light, shadow, and their harmony, which is the vision of beings, form the principle analogous to the great dogmas of Trinity, of Incarnation, and of Redem…